Why I am an unapologetic election denier

Melania Trump fully agrees with her husband’s refusal to vote in 2020. her new memoir reveals.

The famously taciturn wife of former President Donald Trump rarely comments on politics. But in her book MelaniaIn the report, set to be released Tuesday, the former first lady suggests that the 2020 election was stolen.

Looking back on her husband’s last presidential campaign, Melania writes that she was optimistic about his chances, “but the media, Big Tech and the Deep State were all determined to prevent Donald’s re-election by any means possible.”

“With all these enemies, I was afraid that the election would be unfair,” she remembers.

On election night, she writes, she and her son Barron watched the votes arrive from their room in the White House. Her husband stopped by between phone calls. Things seemed to be going well — until Fox News predicted that Joe Biden would win Arizona.

“I couldn’t believe it,” writes Melania. “How could they say it so early, before all the votes were counted? It was another sign that this was not a normal election.”

That call roiled the right, and Trump’s team insisted it was completely premature. Fox was confident in his prediction, which turned out to be correct.

However, according to her book, a copy of which was reviewed by the Daily Beast before publication, that wasn’t the only news that set off alarms for the first lady.

“Soon the media reported that the results would not be clear for several days because of the way mail-in ballots were counted in each state and the different mail-in voting deadlines,” she says. “At that point everything was in question for me.”

The former first lady’s comments show her loyalty to her husband’s political ambitions as he – and perhaps she – seeks to retake the White House.

Her views expressed in the book are consistent with the MAGA mantra that a combination of voter fraud, rigged voting machines and Democratic misconduct stole a presidential term that was rightfully his. These claims have been repeatedly debunked.

But not to Melania. She stands on the side Trump supporters who don’t buy this clear evidence.

“Many Americans still have doubts about the election today,” she writes. “I’m not the only one questioning the results.”

She remembers the turbulent days after the election, “during which suspicious election activity was reported across the country.” While it’s true that there were some potential cases of voter fraud in battleground states, according to an AP News review, there were only a few hundred — too few to actually decide the election.

But that didn’t stop thousands of people convinced the results were illegitimate from storming the Capitol months later. Melania writes that she was busy with archival work in the historic rooms of the White House that day. It was only after 2 p.m. that she received a text message from her press spokesman asking if she wanted to “denounce the violence.”

The First Lady had no idea what she was talking about.

She blames an aide for keeping her in the dark about the unrest, writing in her memoir: “Traditionally, the first lady’s chief of staff provides detailed information on our country’s important issues. My second White House chief of staff did not do this.”

If she had known earlier, she writes, she would have said something. She addresses the incident in her memoir without mentioning her husband’s federal indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

“While it was clear to me that many people felt that the election was mishandled and that the Vice President should stop the confirmation process, we must never resort to violence,” Melania writes.